Winter Games

  LAGO DI TESERO – The sport of biathlon originates from Norway, where soldiers used it as an alternative training exercise in the military; European countries have traditionally been the most successful participants. It may, therefore, seem surprising that Chinese Taipei has two athletes competing in this discipline, Jian-Cheng Fu and Yao-Yi Wang. Chinese Taipei […]

    RSA Figure Skater Kim Falconer   TRENTO – South Africa: deserts, safaris and… figure skating? It is not, perhaps, the first sport that comes to mind when thinking of South Africa. For skater Kim Falconer, however, it has been a passion since childhood. So how does a South African start figure skating? Kim […]

  Struan Tonnar (right) has been thoroughly impressed with the magnitude of the 2013 Winter Universiade  CANAZEI – When Struan Tonnar made the Great Britain men’s ice hockey team, nothing prepared him for what he saw upon arriving at the 2013 Winter Universiade. “It’s second to none really,” he said. “I was totally taken back […]

  TRENTO – Many of the athletes participating in the Universiades, both winter and summer, have been or will be Olympians. It is the case of one of the two Spanish ice dancing pairs involved in the Trentino Universiade. Sara Hurtado and Adriá Diaz try to make compatible two careers: the university and sports. They […]

    Van der Vinne after his raceBASELGA DI PINE – While many athletes spend a long time training for the Universiade, some do not have the same kind of warning. Pepijn van der Vinne of the Netherlands actually only found out that he would be competing about five or six weeks before the start […]

    FISU President Claude-Louis Gallien (at Cavalese Ice Arena) is delighted with how the 2013 Winter Universiade is going so far   CAVALESE – The 2013 Winter Universiade is only four days old, but FISU President Claude-Louis Gallien couldn’t be happier with how the games are going so far. “They are going as good […]